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I pretty much always use verdana, I'm pretty concerned as to which fonts I use. I mean you can assume everyone has verdana, arial maybe sans or whatever, but what other fonts are on most os's as standard, I read somewhere that Win95 had like eight fonts as standard, and subsequent versions have those as well, I can live with people who aren't using windows seeing my page in "Browser default" the thing is, I'm not sure what these core fonts are.

If anyone has a list of the fonts that are pretty much globally compatible, I'd really appreciate it

Marina, when I first started designing, I was also really concerned about the PC/Mac font display difference. However, after doing a lot of cross-OS, cross-browser testing for one site, I found that the really big difference wasn't between the PC and the Mac, but between IE and Netscape. NS displayed the fonts MUCH smaller than IE. It was fairly easily fixed by using JavaScript to detect the browser and then serving up a browser-specific stylesheet.

I don't know if anyone else has a different experience? But that's just what I've found so far.